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Hmmmmm.
Angst. It kinda baffles me sometimes. Well, I don't know for sure that 'baffles' is really the word I want to use, but....
I have friends and even acquaintences who are, or have been, going through some pretty difficult times lately. And although I always lend a friendly ear and a shoulder to cry on, so to speak, I know that it's foolish and even rather presumptuous of me to say that I could possibly know what they are going through.
I don't know if it's that I necessarily have a better life experience than they do- I've certainly had problems of my own, whether I'm just generally in denial, or whether I simply don't function that way. I just don't really get down that often. I can think of one time in my life that I've ever even remotely felt what I'd define as angst, and that was in early 1999. Am I just lucky? Who knows.
Sometimes I feel extremely fortunate that I've manage to avoid even the supposed requisite 'teen angst', so to speak, even though I'm 21 now... But then sometimes it's like... well, I don't know. I don't have the luxury of being able to relate to people who are having a real tough time dealing with things, and I want to be able to do that.
I don't know, maybe this whole thing is one of those reasons I rarely calm down, so to speak. I find it really hard to be serious... or maybe it's the other way around. Maybe because I don't take all that many things too seriously, they don't affect me in that way.
I'm confused by the whole concept, I think. It perplexes me. I can't say that I want to be in the depths of despair, so to speak, as that would just really SUCK, but... Ahwell.
Too bad happy-fluffy stuff doesn't tend to be all that profound. :P
I have friends and even acquaintences who are, or have been, going through some pretty difficult times lately. And although I always lend a friendly ear and a shoulder to cry on, so to speak, I know that it's foolish and even rather presumptuous of me to say that I could possibly know what they are going through.
I don't know if it's that I necessarily have a better life experience than they do- I've certainly had problems of my own, whether I'm just generally in denial, or whether I simply don't function that way. I just don't really get down that often. I can think of one time in my life that I've ever even remotely felt what I'd define as angst, and that was in early 1999. Am I just lucky? Who knows.
Sometimes I feel extremely fortunate that I've manage to avoid even the supposed requisite 'teen angst', so to speak, even though I'm 21 now... But then sometimes it's like... well, I don't know. I don't have the luxury of being able to relate to people who are having a real tough time dealing with things, and I want to be able to do that.
I don't know, maybe this whole thing is one of those reasons I rarely calm down, so to speak. I find it really hard to be serious... or maybe it's the other way around. Maybe because I don't take all that many things too seriously, they don't affect me in that way.
I'm confused by the whole concept, I think. It perplexes me. I can't say that I want to be in the depths of despair, so to speak, as that would just really SUCK, but... Ahwell.
Too bad happy-fluffy stuff doesn't tend to be all that profound. :P